The Transformative Power of Yoga in Healing Trauma and Reclaiming Agency

Explore the profound impact of yoga on trauma healing, brain regulation, and reclaiming one's sense of agency. Delve into the neurobiological effects of chronic stress and the therapeutic potential of yoga in restoring balance and reconnecting with oneself and others. Discover how yoga facilitates social engagement, personal space management, and parent-child synchrony, offering a pathway to holistic healing and self-empowerment.

• Trauma healing
• Yoga therapy
• Neurobiology
• Self-empowerment
• Holistic wellness

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1. Body Keeps The Score: Yoga,Trauma,Brain JONATHAN BAYLIN AND JESSICA SINARSKI JUNE 10, 2021

2. CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE attended a continuing education event on June 10, 2021 from 8:30 am to 10 am (1.5 hrs) via video conference format as Part Six of a series entitled The Body Keeps the Score: The Neurobiology of Trauma and Healing Presenters: Jonathan Baylin, PhD and Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH 6/10/2021 Jonathan Baylin, PhD coauthor, Brain Based Parenting And The Neurobiology of Attachment-focused Therapy

3. Yoga as an antidote to Chronic Effects of Early Life Stress CHRONIC HYPERACTIVATION OF THE ANTI-REWARD SYSTEM: SUPPRESSION OF DOPAMINE AND MOVEMENT CHRONIC SELF DEFENSE AND SUPPRESSION OF THE FREEDOM TO MOVE AND TAKE UP SPACE CHRONIC HYPERACTIVATION OF THE MID-BRAIN SELF DEFENSE SYSTEM: STUCK IN UNCOMPLETED DEFENSIVE MOVEMENT

4. Yoga as process for reclaiming a sense of AGENCY and CONTROL over use of body and ways of being present in physical space

5. Yoga as a process of reawakening the social engagement system: synchronizing movements with a safe enough coach in the presence of others

6. Yoga and personal space: sharing personal space with other people while being in charge of your personal space at the same time ..

7. The STS has been shown to produce strong responses when subjects perceive stimuli in research areas that include theory of mind, biological motion, faces, voices, and language Parent-child synchrony: linking the two brains via Gamma Waves in the STS (Levy, Goldstein, and Feldman) Parent Child Perception of social synchrony induces mother child gamma coupling in the social brain Jonathan Levy,Abraham Goldstein,Ruth Feldman

8. Synchronizing movement with a safe other: yoga promotes shift from automatic, defensive, incomplete movement to intentional movement completed in sync with a coach and others in the space

9. Yoga and memory reconsolidation: activating trauma-based embodied memories while maintaining dual attention to here and now and there and then